Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a state of emergency in downtown Lod on Wednesday when police accused Arab residents of « large-scale unrest ».
Netanyahu’s statement came after last night an Israeli Arab was killed in Lod as violence between Israel and the Palestinian territories increased.
According to an AFP photographer, Netanyahu himself went to the city, which is in the suburbs of the Tel Aviv economic center near the airport Ben Gurion is located to demand silence.
The city of 77,000, including 47,000 Jewish Israelis and 23,000 Arab Israelis, was the scene of violent clashes on Monday, local police confirmed to AFP.
But on Tuesday evening When the protests in East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and also in Israeli-Arab cities increased, the situation in Lod degenerated « Some Arab residents and vulnerable communities have caused widespread unrest, » a police statement said. The government said reinforcements were deployed after Israeli media reported that three synagogues and several companies were set on fire in Lod.
« Sixteen border police were mobilized in areas to deal with the violence, » added the police.
There were also violent scenes in Israeli -Arab areas such as Acre, Wadi Ara and Jisr A-Zarqa, where eight people were arrested, said the police.
Weeks of tension rolled over as the Israeli riot police on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in the Al -Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem clashed with a crowd of Palestinians.
Since then, night clashes have taken place on the site, which is sacred to both Muslims and Jews, and elsewhere in East Jerusalem at least 700 Palestinians injured.
On Tuesday, Palestinian militants Hamas and the Israeli army exchanged their heaviest fire in several years with rockets fired at Tel Aviv after an Israeli strike destroyed a high-rise block in Gaza.
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